"Wu Angong, I'm sorry. failed to advance north in time to fight side by side with Gong, and you were trapped in a lonely city. ”

On the battlefield outside Guangwu City, sporadic battles continued, but they were all commanded by the commanders of each team, and there was no need for Li Tai to supervise the deployment of the formation. At this time, the defenders in the city had also cleared out the blocked city gate, and Li Mu led his own soldiers out to greet him, and Li Tai rode his horse to Li Mu and his party with a fist and said.

After Li Mu heard this, his expression was ashamed, and he waved his hand and said: "Boshan, don't laugh at me anymore, I was rash against the enemy before, and I was almost harmed by this ant Hu, and I retreated in a hurry, and the state border has been lost, if it weren't for Boshan, you will lead the troops to help in time, and I don't know when you will be able to break through the enemy!" ”

Seeing Li Mu's embarrassed look, Li Tai thought that his self-esteem had been seriously frustrated, so he didn't continue the topic, and instead pointed to the battlefield and said: "Our army has come to fight from afar, and we don't know much about the enemy's situation, I'm afraid that we will miss the culprit of the thief in the battle. ”

After Li Mu heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "Between me and Boshan, there is no need to do such a vulgar plan. You are willing to come to the rescue, I am already deeply impressed. All these thieves were defeated by your army, and all kinds of harvests were collected by your people. My subordinates do have some spare energy to use, but they really don't have the face to share the credit. ”

Nowadays, the private army is prevalent, no matter how major the battle, it is difficult to accurately distribute the credit to each specific soldier, and even if it is to be rewarded, it is mostly for the generals who supervise the army, and rarely go down to the army.

The generals wanted to motivate and reward their troops and boost the morale of the army, so they either paid out of their own pockets or had to think of other ways.

It is often recorded in the history books that some famous ministers will reward others with their own money, so that their own families have no money to spare, as a sign of their high morals. But it is very likely that this person is a strong army leader who supports his own troops, and his ability to generate income and increase production is so-so.

In addition to paying out of pocket, one of the most important ways to feed the trilogy is to feed the war with war. For example, on the battlefield right now, the thieves and soldiers who fled everywhere and the abandoned staff and materials everywhere are naturally the trophies of the winning side.

Hearing that Li Mu didn't care and handed over the distribution of the spoils, Li Taidang was no longer polite, and asked the defenders who were leaving the city one after another to pick up all the things left on the battlefield for the time being, and negotiated with Li Mu, and together they sent troops to organize a pursuit team of 3,000 people, and chased and killed them in the direction of the defeat and escape of the thief army.

While the soldiers were busy, Li Zhi's envoy came to tell him that the camp left by the thieves had been occupied and cleared, and Li Tai invited Li Mutong to visit the enemy camp after listening to it.

Li Mu also wanted to use the camp left by the enemy army to understand the enemy more deeply, so he led a group of personal soldiers into the thief camp with Li Tai.

There are many tributaries of the canals on the north bank of Qingshui, and in winter the water runs out and these canals dry up, forming a series of oblique and longitudinal river valleys, and the camp of the thief army is set up in such a river valley.

When Li Tai and Li Mu entered the enemy camp, they looked left and right, and soon noticed a hint of mystery.

The scale of the camp of the thief army is not small, but many of the remaining tents in the camp have no traces of soldiers living in them, which shows that the commander of the thief army is also bluffing and exaggerating his own strength.

A battle is always full of variables before the outcome is decided, and it is also the consciousness that every commander must have by unscrupulous means and using all the methods he can use to increase his chances of victory.

"This thief general is quite cunning, and he bluffs by taking advantage of the fact that I have underestimated the enemy before me and failed to distinguish between the real and the false. If I can see the emptiness in his camp early, I will attack the thief camp myself, so why bother Boshan to run for a journey! ”

Li Mu was a little embarrassed and cut down several empty tents in the thief camp one after another, and said with half unwillingness and half resentment. He himself is a master of disguise, and he earned ten lives for himself, but he was deceived by a thief general, and he felt a double frustration in his heart.

Although he had already stated that he would not participate in the distribution of the meritorious spoils, after walking in this thief camp, Li Mu couldn't help but ask: "Has the thief army master captured him?" ”

Li Zhi, who was the first to rush here, shook his head after hearing this, and said with his crossed hands: "When the thief army was defeated and left, there were still nearly 2,000 people who bowed to the banner. According to the confession of the thief chief captured in the old formation, the main general of this army is named Liu Aqi, who is the ...... of the Shihu thief department."

Li Mu couldn't help but feel disappointed after listening to Li Dao's explanation, and sighed not without potential: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that this thief will use the army to draw a method, it should be a wise man among the thieves who is good at commanding the army, this time he can't be arrested on the spot, if he is allowed to escape, I'm afraid it will continue to be a disaster in the coming year!" ”

Li Tai heard that Li Mu should hope to continue to pursue the enemy, but if he relied on his Dongxia Prefecture headquarters, it was still not enough to be safe, so he wanted Li Tai's men and horses to continue to cooperate. However, he has just accepted Li Tai's rescue and relief from the siege and has not yet returned it, so he should be a little ashamed to speak for a while.

"Eliminate all evil, how can you give up halfway and leave a legacy of disaster! Although our army is not a heroic army, even if it has reached this point, it must not sit back and let the thieves disturb the realm and then calmly evacuate! If Wu Angong has a strategy to attack the thieves from afar, I also implore that he can be among them! ”

Seeing that Li Mu was embarrassed to speak, Li Tai simply said directly.

This in itself is not Li Mu's business alone, although these thieves did not directly intrude into the Sanfang City area this time, it also made Li Tai worried. Although it was only a false alarm, it was necessary to give the other party the most cruel revenge in order to deter these thieves from making things out of surprise and interfering with the development plan of Sanfang City's Tuntian.

When Li Mu heard Li Tai's statement, he was overjoyed, grabbed Li Tai's arm and clenched it again and again, and said with a smile: "The former Boshan generals came to help, I already know that you are a righteous person, and I am grateful in my heart." After Guangwu solves the predicament, he is still willing to help me fight the enemy who is coming, which really makes me ......

Alas, there are many people I have experienced in my life, relatives and friends, but I can work with each other and trust the dead and death, Boshan and a few others! Li Xianqing is not a moral gentleman praised by the world, but he will never live up to his kindness. Since then, Boshan has something to trust, and I will never refuse! ”

Seeing Li Mu's grateful appearance, Li Tai was also quite pleased, but he was also afraid that if he continued like this, Li Mu might have to be a sworn brother with him who cut off the head of the chicken and burned the yellow paper. Let's make friends, but one yard is one yard, if you want to stand and squeeze into my Longxi Li family, then I can't just agree!

So he hurriedly diverted the topic again, pointed at Li Zhifa and asked, "How many thief chieftains were captured in this battle?" What are their identities? Have you interrogated them all? ”

"Before, I was ordered by the Metropolitan Governor to break the thief formation first. After the defeat of the thief army, more than 20 members of the big and small thief chiefs and commanders were arrested one after another, and they were still interrogated in turn. ”

Speaking of the capture of personnel, Li Zhi couldn't help but frown, although the real focus of Taiwan's military strategy is not in northern Shaanxi, but capturing so many thieves and Hu leaders in one battle can definitely be called a great achievement.

But after reporting the basic situation, Li Zhi's face turned a little strange, and he turned around and pointed to a camp tent in the camp and said: "There is a Hu chief in that military tent who surrenders himself, but the situation is a little strange, and the last general and others don't know what to do, and they have to ask the governor to make a decision himself." ”

When Li Tai heard this, he was a little curious in his heart, and he walked towards the camp.

Li Mu did not follow, after Li Tai promised to help him continue to pursue and kill the thief army, he was already full of enthusiasm in his heart, and he wanted to make up for his mistakes in the next pursuit operation, of course, he had to have a comprehensive understanding of the thief's situation.

Therefore, after asking Li Zhi about the places where the Hu chiefs were being held and interrogated, Li Mu rushed there to personally interrogate and understand the enemy's situation.

"What's going on?"

When Li Taixing went to the outside of the camp tent that Li Zhi said, he looked inward for a while, his face suddenly sank, and he pointed to the situation inside and said angrily: "Even if you want to humiliate these thieves and captives, how can you waste materials like this!" These silk brocades are tarnished by this, can they still be used? ”

When the soldiers guarding outside the tent heard this, their faces became a little distorted, and they hurriedly clasped their fists in horror and said: "Master Qiqilang, when the servants came here, this was the situation in the tent, and it was really not the servants who did this at the expense of materials......

"Nonsense! You didn't do it, but they did? ”

Li Tai glanced at the wrapped zongzi-like pawns in the tent again, and he was angry in his heart, only seeing that the tent was full of pawns, I was afraid that there would be hundreds of people, each of whom was wrapped in several layers of silk silk, and there were even more precious brocades inside, at least hundreds of horses had been wasted.

Jihu was originally a nest of poor ghosts, even if he won such a battle, he was afraid that there was very little gain except for the captives of men and horses, and he was actually wasted like this, Li Tai was angry in his heart. If he doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, he already plans to severely punish the soldiers who engage in such mischief.

"The Grand Governor, the Grand Governor, they didn't lie, this is the weirdness of what the last general said!"

Li Zhi hurriedly chased after Li Mu after showing the way, and when he saw the anger on Li Taizheng's face, he quickly explained, in order to show that what he said was true, he shouted to the tent again: "Listen to the people in the tent, most of my family is here, and you will go out as soon as possible, if you still disobey the order, Hugh blame the knife and be ruthless!" ”

"Slow, slow! May I ask what rank this Metropolitan Governor has in your country, and can he decide major matters? ”

As soon as Li Dao's words fell, a somewhat muffled shout came from the crowd in the tent: "Please forgive this Grand Governor, I will never look down on you." It's just that my identity is not bad, and the things I can explain are also confidential and important, and not the general public can hear about them. It's better to invite your commander and general to come and surrender, and let your army know the secret earlier! ”

Li Tai originally felt a little embarrassed, but when he heard the shouting of the people in the tent, he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong, and turned to look at Li Zhi next to him to confirm.

Li Zhi also gave Li Tai an unknown look, and then shouted to the tent: "The governor of my family is the commander of our army, and life and death can be decided." If you still refuse to go out of worship, it will be difficult to be polite again! ”

"Disperse, you all disperse quickly, don't stop me from going out of the tent to meet the nobles!"

After listening to Li Dao's shouting, the voice in the tent suddenly became urgent, and the guards gathered in the tent also began to disperse to the left and right.

Seeing this, Li Zhi hurriedly summoned the soldiers from the left and near, and pulled out the tent one by one the Hu pawns who took the initiative to disperse, and added a little more than 500 people, and they were not old, weak, sick or disabled, all of them looked strong and powerful, much stronger than those Hu pawns captured in many battle formations.

What's even more puzzling is that after these soldiers withdrew from the camp, they revealed a place of armor and equipment, and they still looked relatively sophisticated, which made the situation even more bizarre.

However, before Li Zhi could ask more questions, a tightly wrapped colored zongzi in the tent moved out quickly, and let out a very earnest inquiry: "May I ask which strong man is the Metropolitan Governor?" ”

Li Zhi took a spear from the hand of the soldier next to him and provoked it slightly, the head and face of the zongzi were revealed, he also raised his arm and forcefully picked off the brocade and other things wrapped around his body, looked around, and when he walked in front of Li Tai in small steps, he knelt on the ground with a thud and said loudly: "This handsome and mighty god-like Lang Jun must be the Metropolitan Governor!" Xiaomin Xihe is away from Shibu and the upper chief Liu Kuzhen, meet the metropolitan governor! The Metropolitan Governor was intimidating, and he only hated that he hadn't been able to meet earlier, otherwise how could he use the Metropolitan Governor to lead the troops to teach, and the small people led their subordinates to obey the orders of the Metropolitan Governor......"

Li Tai prides himself on being a person with some knowledge, but after seeing the performance of this Hu Chief, he still couldn't react for a while, he really didn't expect that the difference in human nature was so big that it could be so big.

Even if he is greedy for life and afraid of death, he needs to wag his tail and beg for mercy, but the bottomless line shown by Hu Chief Liu Kuzhen is also something Li Tai has never seen before.

Goodbye to those valuable silk satins that were casually abandoned to the ground by this guy, Li Tai's brows furrowed even more, this obscene thief chief is simply useless except for his normal aesthetics!

He ordered his guards to set up the Hu chieftain and looked him up and down, and then he sneered and said: "I have captured and killed a lot of thieves Hu Qushuai, but there are not many who are as arrogant and arrogant as you. I would like to hear what is special about you, and what secrets you have to be coached and heard. If you just try to deceive people for the sake of life, then you are doomed to a bad death! ”